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How I discovered that Bill Gates monopolized ACPI in order to break Linux (enaix.github.io)

submitted 4 weeks ago by Sunshine@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Microsoft has been pulling this since the 80s... Bill Gates was personally responsible for destroying WordPerfect, dbase,etc competing office software.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

They also did that stuff with DR-DOS, they've been pulling dirty tricks with all their competition since the beginning with little or no consequences.

And people whine because their laptops sometimes don't work with Linux when it's actually a fucking miracle that almost all machines currently work flawlessly despite all the hardware having been specifically designed to be hostile to anything that isn't Windows.